Sentences with phrase «meal eligibility data»

Some states use school meal eligibility data to allocate state or local education or other funds.

Not exact matches

This brief, which contains the most recent data available, explains the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Child Nutrition Division policies regarding eligibility for free school meals for certain homeless, migrant, runaway, and foster students; addresses frequently asked questions about implementing these policies; and offers tools to ensure that these students can access food both inside and outside of school.

We utilize Provision 2 to reduce the paperwork burden and have tried several methods of collecting data and determining the eligibility of meals.

Yet, much of that work depends on a simple, often unstated, assumption: that the short list of control variables captured in educational data systems — prior achievement, student demographics, English language learner status, eligibility for federally subsidized meals or programs for gifted and special education students — include the relevant factors by which students are sorted to teachers and schools.

[6] Community eligibility schools, however, may not collect school meal applications or use funds from the school nutrition account to collect individual income data.

[3] Community eligibility schools are not required to find their Identified Students each year, but would benefit from doing so because their free reimbursement percentage could increase, it can help their state meet direct certification performance benchmarks, and it would allow them to use the data for purposes outside the meals programs.

When school districts implement community eligibility, however, they no longer have the individual income data from those meal applications for the students attending community eligibility schools — data that programs outside of the school meal programs often use.

The positive experience of states and school districts that have implemented community eligibility demonstrates that while they can no longer use school meal application data to allocate funds, states and localities should not be dissuaded from adopting community eligibility.

It is critical that states and school districts identify alternatives to data from meal applications so that high - poverty schools that adopt community eligibility to feed more students are not disadvantaged in any other context.

Likewise, it is critical that a desire for data traditionally gathered from meal applications does not stand in the way of districts and schools implementing community eligibility, which can help support educational achievement, reduce hunger, and improve children's nutrition and health.

The data included students» race, nativity, immigration history, grade, borough of residence, attendance, eligibility for free and reduced - price school meals, and participation in limited English proficiency (LEP) and special education programs.

The Community Eligibility Option (CEO) attempts to reduce administrative burdens on schools and districts by allowing schools, groups of schools, or local education agencies with more than 40 % of students qualifying for «direct certification» of FRL eligibility to provide free meals to their entire student body, and to cease reporting data disaggregated by FRL eEligibility Option (CEO) attempts to reduce administrative burdens on schools and districts by allowing schools, groups of schools, or local education agencies with more than 40 % of students qualifying for «direct certification» of FRL eligibility to provide free meals to their entire student body, and to cease reporting data disaggregated by FRL eeligibility to provide free meals to their entire student body, and to cease reporting data disaggregated by FRL eligibilityeligibility.

By placing these data points on a scatterplot, we can more easily compare the average test results of districts and charter schools that are similar in terms of district - wide free and reduced meal eligibility.

But Andy Ratcliffe, the chief executive of the private equity philanthropy charity Impetus, which funds education projects, said the plan means some pupils will gain and then lose eligibility for free school meals within the space of a few months, at the same time as the census data which informs exam results and school funding is collected.

The department's original plan, as reported in the last edition of Schools Week, was to extend the meals to every child of a family that claimed any part of universal credit, something charities argued would «poison» national data on disadvantaged pupils, for which free meals eligibility is used as an important yardstick.

Through CEP, eligible schools can provide meal service to all students at no charge, regardless of economic status and without the need to collect eligibility data through household applications.

It does this by using data for individual students, such as scores on standardized tests, special education and English - learner status, eligibility for free and reduced - price meals (a proxy for poverty), and race and ethnicity.

Green Dot will determine eligibility for free meals based on a data match with information from the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADs) that a child is a member of a household currently receiving Food Stamp or FDPIR benefits or an assistance unit receiving CalWORKs or Kin - GAP benefdata match with information from the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADs) that a child is a member of a household currently receiving Food Stamp or FDPIR benefits or an assistance unit receiving CalWORKs or Kin - GAP benefData System (CALPADs) that a child is a member of a household currently receiving Food Stamp or FDPIR benefits or an assistance unit receiving CalWORKs or Kin - GAP benefits.

Pupil attainment data, grouped by gender, ethnicity and free school meal eligibility, broken down by the area in which pupils live.